Director
Rian Johnson
5 films•2012–2025•Drama · Action · Sci-Fi
93%average critics79%average audience$170.9Mdomestic average
Films
5
2012–2025
Domestic
$854.6M
lifetime
Worldwide
$1.82B
lifetime
Avg opening
$55.7M
3-day
Avg legs
4.06x
opening → total
Return
4.7x
on $387.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 5 films directed by Rian Johnson, from Looper (2012) to Wake Up Dead Man (2025), together grossing $854.6M domestic and $1.82B worldwide. The biggest hit is Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) at $1.33B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $220.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Wake Up Dead Man | 2025 | $1.5M | $2.5M | — | — | — | 92% | — |
 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | 2022 | $9.2M | — | — | — | A | 92% | — |
 Knives Out | 2019 | $26.8M | $165.4M | 6.17x | $312.9M | A- | 97% | #15 |
 Star Wars: The Last Jedi | 2017 | $220.0M | $620.2M | 2.82x | $1.33B | A | 91% | #1 |
 Looper | 2012 | $20.8M | $66.5M | 3.20x | $177.0M | B | 93% | #44 |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 3.2 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.7x
$1.82B worldwide on $387.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $852.1MInternational $971.8M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven7.8x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →#6Biggest opening weekendsStar Wars: The Last Jedi$220.0M#6Biggest PG-13 openingsStar Wars: The Last Jedi$220.0M#7Biggest single daysStar Wars: The Last Jedi$104.7M
Top 3 of 8 placings across 8 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
